Yankees GM's profane response sign of how frustrated club is with slugger

Never mind that the injured third baseman’s impending return to the lineup can help the Yankees in a tightly packed American League East. The Yankees, and general manager Brian Cashman in particular, apparently have had it with A-Rod making so much news while he has yet to spend an inning on the field this season.

Brian Cashman doesn't want to hear another tweet from Alex Rodriguez about the Yankees third baseman's rehab. (AP Photos)

The breaking point appears to be Rodriguez’s introduction this week to Twitter.

Rodriguez used his newly verified account (he first tweeted on May 31) to break a little news to his adoring (sarcasm alert) public. He told everyone: “Visit from Dr. (Bryan) Kelly over the weekend, who gave me the best news—the green light to play games again!” That directly contradicted Cashman’s statement Monday that Rodriguez was not cleared to play in games.

Just writing this makes me laugh because Cashman has, finally, publicly blown his top when it comes to A-Rod—he probably has done so privately on numerous occasions. You can just imagine steam coming out of Cashman’s ears and the top of his head becoming bright red as a pot of water boils over on top of it.

But Twitter, well, that was just too much for Cashman to take. “Alex should just shut the (expletive) up” is Cashman talk for “Alex, just leave us all alone and retire or something, you wretched person.” Or at least it sounds like it.

Look, it’s no secret the Yankees don’t want to pay another dollar of the $86 million owed to Rodriguez, who turns 38 in about a month, AFTER this season through 2017. His production has drastically dipped, although he was still a pretty productive major league third baseman before offseason hip surgery, and he has become more of a headache for the front office than he’s worth.

The problem is that there is no solution to any of this. The Yankees can’t trade him (besides the huge dollars, A-Rod also has a no-trade clause). They can’t release him because, again, he can produce, and because they’re paying him a smaller country’s entire budget, they might as well milk what they can from his possibly illegally enhanced body. Releasing him would just mean the Yankees are paying him to stay away.

A-Rod is still getting the hang of this Twitter thing—he possibly is following the wrong Manny Machado, unless he really digs interior design tweets —but it’s safe to believe he won’t be tweeting any more progress reports about his recovery.

Maybe he’ll discover what many athletes already know and start using Twitter to get girls’ phone numbers. It’s probably easier than doing it from the dugout after getting benched.